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Maternal healthMore than 500,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth every year – that is one every minute. 99 per cent of these deaths are in developing countries and most are preventable. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reasserted the importance of maternal health to development. Yet slow progress in achieving MDG 5 suggests that the interventions necessary to improve maternal health and ensure that women have access to skilled birth attendance are not straightforward. Future Health Systems partners in Bangladesh, Uganda and Afghanistan have been assessing the causes of maternal deaths in their settings and providing guidance on how these challenges might be met. What's New?Laura Steinhardt 's presentation on access, cost and quality of maternal services in Afghanistan at the International Health Economics Association Conference was featured in a blog on the Eldis Community site (registration required) Obstacles to maternity service use in Afghanistan: what do we know about cost, quality and access?
View more presentations from Kate Hawkins. An article on FHS research into why women shun antenatal care was featured in Uganda's daily monitor The role of Misoprostol in making home births safer: Research Brief The role of Misiprostol in making home births safer: Press release
Further ReadingMohammed Iqbal, Sabrina Rasheed, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi and Abbas Bhuiya Reaching the poor with performance based payment for safe delivery services in rural Bangladesh. Health system strenghtening : role of conditional incentives. Bulletin 112 Medicus Mundi Schweiz, May 2009 Sutherland T and Bishai DM. ‘Cost-effectiveness of misoprostol and prenatal iron supplementation as maternal mortality interventions in home births in rural India’ International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, (2008) Rahman MH, Mosley WH, Ahmed S, Akhter HH. Does service accessibility reduce socio-economic differentials in maternity care seeking? Evidence from rural Bangladesh. Journal of Biosocial Science. 2008; 40:19-33 Published online June 2007. doi:10.1017/S0021932007002258 Huntingdon D, Yunguo L, Ollier L and Bloom G. Improving maternal health – lessons from the basic health services project in China. DFID, 2008
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Innovations and knowledge for future health systems for the poor
